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Sources: Odorizzi, Abreu accept qualifying offers

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Thursday, 14 November 2019 14:06

Minnesota Twins pitcher Jake Odorizzi and Chicago White Sox slugger Jose Abreu are accepting their one-year, $17.8 million qualifying offers for 2020 and will forgo free agency, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan on Thursday.

Barring contract extensions, both will be free agents without restriction after the 2020 season.

The seven players who will reject qualifying offers, sources told Passan, and have draft-pick and perhaps international-bonus compensation tied to their free agency: Gerrit Cole, Anthony Rendon, Stephen Strasburg, Zack Wheeler, Madison Bumgarner, Josh Donaldson and Marcell Ozuna.

Prior to this season, only three players had accepted qualifying offers -- out of 80 -- since it was implemented after the 2012 season.

Odorizzi, who turns 30 in March, is coming off the best season of his career, going 15-7 with a 3.51 ERA in 30 starts for the AL Central champion Twins. He set career highs for wins and strikeouts (178) as the Twins racked up 101 wins and claimed their first division title since 2010. The All-Star right-hander started Game 3 of the AL Division Series against the New York Yankees, allowing two runs over five innings.

He has made at least 28 starts in six straight years and has thrown at least 143 innings in all of those seasons, reaching 159 innings in five of the six. His velocity jumped on all pitches, while the Twins had him work more with four-seam fastballs up and cutters down or down/glove-side, making his fastball a true out pitch for him.

Odorizzi's acceptance of the qualifying offer was first reported by The Athletic

Abreu, who made his third All-Star team in six seasons with the White Sox, led the American League with 123 RBIs last season while batting .284 with 33 home runs. The first baseman/designated hitter, who will turn 33 in January, showed he can still catch up to fastballs as he ranked among the leaders in overall exit velocity, but struggled with breaking pitches and rarely walks.

The $17.8 million qualifying offer was determined by the average of the top 125 major league contracts in 2019. If a team makes an offer to a player who signs with another club before the June amateur draft, his former club would receive a draft pick as compensation at the end of the first round.

A free agent can be made a qualifying offer only if he has been with the same team continuously since Opening Day and has never received a qualifying offer before.

The qualifying offer price started at $13.3 million in 2012, rose to $14.1 million in 2013, $15.3 million in 2014, $15.8 million in 2015, $17.2 million in 2016 and $17.4 million in 2017.

ESPN's Keith Law contributed to this report.

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